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Who was Cassandra?

In the Iliad, she is described as the loveliest of the daughters of Priam (King of Troy), and gifted with prophecy. The god Apollo loved her, but she spurned him. As a punishment, he decreed that no one would ever believe her. So when she told her fellow Trojans that the Greeks were hiding inside the wooden horse...well, you know what happened.

Thanks, Rachel, Natalie, Dick. And no, my mother-in-law is the white-haired woman in the beret in the foreground. The dark-haired woman owned the shop, and her own mother -- a small, white-haired Indian woman, always in a sari -- was often there -- another reason my mother-in-law enjoyed stopping in.